The trial at Lahore of Indians charged with conspiracy under
the new Defence of India Act was the occasion of remarkable revelations. One of the ringleaders, Amar Singh, bad emigrated to Canada in 1909, and there came in contact in 1913 with Har Dayal, a well-known revolutionary, who had been an undergraduate at Oxford. Amar Singh and Her Dayal collected money from their fellow-Indians, and started the notorious revolutionary organ Gadhr. Her Dayal went to Switzerland when the Canadian authorities were taking action against him under the Immigration Acts. Amer Singh sailed for India with the Indian workmen who had vainly come to Vancouver to demand the right of landing there. The avowed object of Amar Singh and the revolutionaries he had gathered round him was to bring about another Mutiny in India while the Empire was distracted by the war. At various ports during the voyage back to India they landed and incited the Indian residents. One of these places was Singapore, where a mutiny afterwards broke out. On reaching India at the end of 1914 they tried. to seduce the troops at Lahore, Umballa, Meerut, and elsewhere. A. general rising was fixed for February 21st, 1915. Meanwhile they raised money by robbery. As in the great Mutiny, all civil Europeans were to be murdered. and the loyal troops suddenly attacked. Fortunately the danger has now passed.
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